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Modified: 7/28/2021 3:46:54 PM
TOKYO For decades, they were told to shake it off or toughen up to set aside the doubt, or the demons, and focus on the task at hand: winning. Dominating. Getting it done.
For years, Simone Biles was one of the very best at that. Suddenly to some, shockingly she decided she wasn’t in the right headspace.
By pulling on her white sweatsuit in the middle of Tuesday night’s Olympic gymnastics meet, and by doing it with a gold medal hanging in the balance, Biles might very well have redefined the mental health discussion that’s been coursing through sports for the past year.
Published: 7/28/2021 3:47:16 PM
TOKYO For decades, they were told to shake it off or toughen up to set aside the doubt, or the demons, and focus on the task at hand: winning. Dominating. Getting it done.
For years, Simone Biles was one of the very best at that. Suddenly to some, shockingly she decided she wasn’t in the right headspace.
By pulling on her white sweatsuit in the middle of Tuesday night’s Olympic gymnastics meet, and by doing it with a gold medal hanging in the balance, Biles might very well have redefined the mental health discussion that’s been coursing through sports for the past year.
Australian cyclist Rohan Dennis has gone from being dropped by his team mid-Tour de France because of mental health issues and a series of heartbreaking losses to Olympic bronze medallist.
The 31-year-old from Adelaide won a silver as part of Australia s pursuit team on the track at the 2012 London Olympics - and on Wednesday added a bronze in the men s individual time trial at the Tokyo Games.
Dennis, one of Australia s finest cyclists, was dropped by Bahrain-Merida mid-race after pulling over and saying he couldn t continue in the 2019 edition of the Tour de France, a period of his career he described as almost breaking .